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Re: [SLE] Dell PowerEdge 2850 and RAID monitoring tools
- From: Sunny <sloncho@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 09:51:09 -0500
- Message-id: <e7eeb23050428075176e2b23@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hi John,
On 4/27/05, John Scott <praiserock@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Have you thought about using Nagios or Big Brother to do system
> monitoring for this?
Yes, Nagios is on the list. What I do not know is, if it will be
enough. I would suspect that some kind of software, which monitors the
RAID controller on a low level will be needed. I.e. I need to know if
some of the drives in the container has problems (RAID5), so I can
take actions immediately. Of course, I may be really offtrack, as this
is new for me. But now, I see the whole container as one drive, that's
why I think that there should be something else to interact directly
with the adapter.
>
> Also, I think the current crop of PERCs are Adaptec, not sure since I
> haven't purchased a Dell in awhile, probably won't until AMD is
> offered. Anyway, if they are, you might try the Adaptec site to see
> if they have anything as well.
Looks like this one (PERC 4e/Di) is LSI MegaRAID, but I can not find
anywhere which of MegaRAID models correspond to Dell's name. And Dell
are saying that they support only RedHat.
Anyway, I have found some info on Dell's message boards, so I'll give it a try.
>
> John
>
Thanks
Sunny
On 4/27/05, John Scott <praiserock@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Have you thought about using Nagios or Big Brother to do system
> monitoring for this?
Yes, Nagios is on the list. What I do not know is, if it will be
enough. I would suspect that some kind of software, which monitors the
RAID controller on a low level will be needed. I.e. I need to know if
some of the drives in the container has problems (RAID5), so I can
take actions immediately. Of course, I may be really offtrack, as this
is new for me. But now, I see the whole container as one drive, that's
why I think that there should be something else to interact directly
with the adapter.
>
> Also, I think the current crop of PERCs are Adaptec, not sure since I
> haven't purchased a Dell in awhile, probably won't until AMD is
> offered. Anyway, if they are, you might try the Adaptec site to see
> if they have anything as well.
Looks like this one (PERC 4e/Di) is LSI MegaRAID, but I can not find
anywhere which of MegaRAID models correspond to Dell's name. And Dell
are saying that they support only RedHat.
Anyway, I have found some info on Dell's message boards, so I'll give it a try.
>
> John
>
Thanks
Sunny
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